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Show I AUClUmiUil' RVAX OX THE DEGRADING INFLUENCE OF DIVORCE. Arelibisho,, jfyau. of Philadelphia, in deliveries deliver-ies a sermon at the dedication of the -parochial sdiod a,J convent a New Pliiladdphio, Pa., last we.k, spoke vigorously upon the questions of di-T'-rce ti;;d judyginny. "U'e n. going back to .livorcc."' his grace declared. de-clared. "We pouiK hack lo jv.iygamy. and wc are uoing back u, where we were before Christianity Christian-ity corroded this evil. The condition 0f woman in pagan lines made her ihe slave of man; she was eir graded by pojvr:lm, degraded by divorce." 1 ii conclusion. '!; said : "Woman was emancipate.! when ihe -oung king, the clidd. announced his proclamation o the world from ihe arms of a woman. Christianity did this, an.i ( iristigmty can alone continue it. If it loses n hold woman will sink, sink bv divorce to the level ironi whence she was raised; sink bv polvg-amy, polvg-amy, sink through the lust, ihe brutality and s'en- t-uahty of uu-Chrisiirtii men." |